The appropriation
of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich benefitted virtually
every other German citizen. It was not the Gestapo who invaded Jewish
homes in order to confiscate all property, from bank accounts to bed linens;
it was the German tax officials. While larger assets went to the tax offices,
smaller assets and goods were sold to friends and neighbors in public
auctions of "Non-Aryan" property.

Acclaimed
filmmaker Michael Verhoeven's documentary
documents the bizarre competition that developed between bureaucrats as
to how to organize the robbery of the Jews prior to their deportation
and death. Until just several years ago, the documents proving this planned
expropriation were lost, destroyed or hidden away.